Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds
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Music to Our Years
Musical expression and interpretation develop earlier in individual humans than non-musical speech. Infants focus on and learn the musical components of speech earlier. Music is essentially emotional communication. Body language is usually neglected in what little I have read or heard about in these studies and discussions. The tendency in research and discussion of it…
REMEMBERING MOM
My mother is without a doubt one of the most dynamic and interesting persons I have known. She was acquainted with me before anyone else and had greater responsibility and influence over me in the earliest moments of my existence. The earliest moments I do not recall in ways we understand as conscious and communicable,…
Is This Thing On?
I took the stage at open mic on St. Patrick’s Day. I like to think “mic” on that day is pronounced like, you know, an appropriate ethnic slur, sort of. “This is a poem I wrote especially for today. I wrote it today.” The crowd was already deep in their cups. “It’s called…’Jesus Wept.’” A…
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